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Engine fire V70-XC70

posted by  KLC on  Fri Jan 28 13:38 CST 2005
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WARNING!
Catastrophic spontaneous engine fire occurs in S60s, S80s and V70s with fair regularity. The usual result is total loss of the car. Fortunately, it usually occurs when the engine is off and is most likely due to a defect in the main cooling fan relay. These cases are reported all over the web and it just happened to my daughter-in-law's V70. The car is toast. Volvo at first denied any problem (Ford's influence?), and then recalled some 460,000 cars last September. Don't ignore this problem - the result is a disaster. We are life long Volvo owners and are now reconsidering. All the safety stuff is worthless with a defect like this.
I uploaded an image of the car if you're interested.







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